Check out this high-calorie meat dish favored by farmworkers in Colombia. Start with steak and pork sausage, add deep-fried chorizo, fried eggs, along with rice and beans. Food journalist Steve Dolinsky traveled to Colombia, where he tried the bandeja paisa, a dish so caloric it ought to come with a warning label

According to the latest US census data, nearly 80 percent of Americans speak only one language. But one state is taking a gamble on multilingualism in a big way: Utah. It's become a pioneer in foreign language learning, even as some residents are unhappy with the move.

In the southern part of Ethiopia, abducting children and forcing them into marriage is still a common practice. But advocates have found a unique way to change public opinion about this tradition: making and screening the award-winning film, Difret.

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Jonas Tarm is an up-and-coming composer and his Carnegie Hall debut this month was to be his coming out party. But that won't happen, after a complaint was filed over his composition's inclusion of a 45-second passage of the anthem of Germany's Nazi party.

The first time he saw North Korean leader Kim Il Sung in person, No Kum Sok decided he better start pretending to be a good Communist. Then he started plotting his escape from North Korea, which he managed to pull off in a Soviet-made fighter jet.

UNICEF reports that Nepal is among the 20 countries with the highest rates of child marriage — and its location in South Asia places it in the region with the most child marriages in the world. But the Nepalese government and local NGOs have been working together over the past few years to end the practice once and for all.

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In 1980s Britain, where anti-gay prejudice was widespread and accepted, a group of gay and lesbian Britons reached out to support the UK's striking miners. Their story, the subject of a film released last year, has much to teach today's Internet-based activists, says the screenwriter of "Pride."

The Centavrvs just played for several hundred people at the Spotify House stage at SXSW. Then, the Mexican band took a walk with us to a quiet corner down the street where they performed a stripped down, acoustic version of the band's song "Mańana No," using just cowbell and guitar.

While at SXSW, Sweden's Amason was staying at an idyllic ranch house outside of Austin. Fresh from their performance as part of the festival, Amason invited us to a quiet performance of their song "Went To War" on their back porch.

Because the word's origins are murky, it's difficult to know just how insulting calling someone a "coonass" used to be. Today, some Cajuns view the word as an ethnic slur, while others have embraced it as a badge of honor.

The military picked up plenty of slang and phrases over the course of its wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and pretty much all of it is unprintable or unknown to people who didn't serve. Here are a few choice terms that you can put to use.

Cocktail fans, think fast: what do you need to make the perfect pisco sour? Egg whites, lime, simple sugar and bitters, for sure. But most important of all is the pisco, a spirit that many Peruvians call their national drink.

David Tennant is already famous in the United Kingdom for his performance on Doctor Who, a long-running BBC sci-fi show. Now he's made history on another popular British program of a very different kind.

Despite over half of Brazilians claiming African descent, black Brazilians face widespread racism — which often manifests itself in violence. For the women of Miss Black Power Brazil, resistance against racism comes from a natural place — their hair.

If you've ever struggled through Marcel Proust's seven-volume epic, "Remembrance of Things Past," you have C.K. Scott Moncrieff to thank. Moncrieff introduced the French novelist to the world with his translation, while also living lives as a poet, soldier and spy in his own right.

According to the latest US census data, nearly 80 percent of Americans speak only one language. But one state is taking a gamble on multilingualism in a big way: Utah. It's become a pioneer in foreign language learning, even as some residents are unhappy with the move.

What do you get when you combine the sweet sounds of an obscure West Coast jazz composer with the most popular comic strip of all-time to create an animated Christmas special? "A Charlie Brown Christmas" — one of the most enduring and endearing cultural phenomenons of the last 50 years.

An expedition has returned from the jungles of Honduras with news of the discovery of a lost city from a mysterious culture. Could it be the "Lost City of the Monkey God," a centuries-old Honduran legend?

Coffee is a crucial part of many morning routines. If it's part of your morning routine, be glad. New research suggests that coffee, in fairly large quantities, actually presents significant health benefits.

A Buddhist statue was meant to simply ward off trash and graffiti on a rough Oakland corner. But it became a community gathering place for the area's Vietnamese immigrants, who turned the site into a beautiful shrine.

They wear colorful suits with cravats, canes, monocles, alligator shoes — the more outlandish the fashion, the better. They are Congolese men of modest means and they are the stars of a new ad for Guinness beer.